Archive for December, 2002


Saves the Day

The moon hangs like the blade of an axe tonight, and it�s poised to drop sometime soon enough on this dump truck where I lie mixed up with the morning�s trash. There�s a piece of glass sticking in my back and tar covering my mouth. But it�s o.k. cause I�m still breathing and my hands [...]

Children

Anyone who robs a child of joy or somehow jades them from being and appreciating beauty, should be beat up with some big sticks by some big mean people. I have no idea how parents can raise their kids up to be so cold and calloused, how they can rob them from finding internal peace. [...]

Current

What I’m Listening To This Week: Louis Armstrong - Body and Soul, Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring) Soundtrack, and The Gospel Class cds from Mars Hill Fellowship
What I’m Reading This Week: 1 Corinthians, John, Foolishness to the Greeks by Lesslie Newbigin

Flying

I went flying today in this really cool plane with this really cool guy who is a really cool skier and we did really cool flying stuff and we flew over Lake Lanier and North Atlanta and some other cool places. Then we went to this really old runway that must have been there since [...]

Current

What I’m Listening To This Week: Sim Redmond Band, David Crowder Band, worship.jump & worship.reflect (compiled by muah), some sermons from Steve Brown, some cds from a gospel class from Mars Hill Community Church led by Mark Driscoll, and Gangsta Mix Volume V, Johnny Cash Mix
What I’m Reading This Week: Romans, Matthew, 1 Corinthians 13, [...]

Truth

This is an excerpt from a web community that I’m a part of. Its basically an online dialogue about issues that are going on in the emerging church. The communtiy is called The Emergent Village. The dialogue is as follows and within we are discussing the Postmodern versus Modern battle that is oftentimes manifested within [...]

To Sharon

An excerpt from an email I sent to my friend Sharon describing my day:
i’m so excited because i just love people and there is so much spirit in the air. everybody is just happy and stuff. or at least it seems like that to me. i made a specific point today when i was praying [...]

Current

What I’m Reading This Week: Foolishness to the Greeks by Lesslie Newbigin, Romans, Matthew, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy
What I’m Listening to This Week: David Crowder Band - Can You Hear Us?, Norah Jones Mix, Ella Fitzgerald Mix, Enter the Worship Circle - 1st Circle, Dashboard Confessional, Gangsta Mix Vol. 5 (featuring Alanis, Rusted Root, The [...]

Inside

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. - C.S. Lewis
Worship can best be defined as anything that makes God smile. It is anything that brings joy to God’s heart. So if it is by dancing, [...]

Entertainment

We don’t hear from God these days. We hear from entertainment and sadly its not secular entetainment that we’re hearing from, but religious entertainment. We go to conferences, camps, retreats, seminars, read the newest books, listen to the latest cd, pray the latest generic formula that is supposed to bless us. We want to hear [...]